Why Resilience Matters : The Poverty Impacts of Disasters

This paper presents empirical evidence of the profound and long-term damages from adverse natural events on poverty. It analyzes 30 years of macro-level damage data from disasters (including earthquakes, floods, and storms), according to income gro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rentschler, Jun E.
Format: Publications & Research
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16915